Christine Parthemore, Adjunct Faculty

Christine Parthemore is the founder of CLP Global, LLC, launched in 2015 to provide private consulting and research on international affairs. Her current work covers issues in countering weapons of mass destruction, arms control and disarmament, energy, and the security implications of climate change.

Ms. Parthemore lived in Tokyo in 2016 as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Japan, conducting research on nuclear energy export trends from the Institute of Energy Economics-Japan.

From 2011 to 2015, Ms. Parthemore served as the Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs in the U.S. Department of Defense. In that capacity, she advised and assisted in managing more than $3 billion per year in research and development, acquisition, treaty compliance, and international partnership programs. She managed major projects focused on the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, including a multi-year effort contributing to the international mission to remove and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons.

Prior to joining the Department of Defense, Ms. Parthemore was a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a non-partisan, non-profit think tank in Washington, D.C. At CNAS, she directed a program to analyze national security and foreign policy issues related to energy and environmental systems. Her work at CNAS focused heavily on nuclear energy, climate change, energy geopolitics, and natural resource monopolies. Before joining CNAS, she contributed to two best-selling nonfiction books as a researcher for journalist Bob Woodward.